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Steven Nelson
@snelsonus.bsky.social
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Former dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; UCLA professor emeritus; and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 12h
I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS in Washington, D.C.” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS in Washington, D.C. · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...
www.mobilize.us
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 13h
MIT refuses to sign the regime's authoritarian compact.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h
Four cheers for MIT.

orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
Regarding the Compact | MIT Organization Chart
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 13h
We're going.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13h
Today, Johnson and Marshall are warning Americans not to go to the No Kings rallies because Trump might use the military to break them up. Pritzker is asking all Americans to attend to show their support for the Constitution and democracy and to oppose authoritarian rule by military intimidation.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 13h
By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 1d
It was wonderful being in conversation with artist Victor Ekpuk about his fantastic work late night.

From Victor: “When someone grounds their research about your art in cultural historical facts and quotes you verbatim, you know you’re talking to an art historian.”
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 2d
Uncovering the lives of enslaved people is incredibly important. Here’s a great example of such work. #arthistory

hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...
Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods
The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.
hyperallergic.com
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 2d
Methinks that a road trip to London to see Nigerian Modernisms at the Tate is in order. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...
Nigerian Modernism | Tate Modern
www.tate.org.uk
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 3d
If you're in the Boston/Cambridge area, in three weeks I'll be talking about my Van Gogh book at Harvard's Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/enviro...
Screen shot of Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard page: "The Environment Forum with Michael Lobel: Van Gogh and the End of Nature"
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Sam Jones @samjownes.bsky.social · 6d
Trump’s Imaginary Peace Deal Mocked by World Leaders While Newsom Torches The Regime’s Campus Loyalty Pledge
Trump’s Shutdown Backfires, Newsom Torches His University Loyalty Pledge, Johnson Gets Cut Off, and The Regime’s Portland Lies Exposed
Great news for truth, terrible news for Trump
www.dworkinsubstack.com
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
a woman is holding a cup of coffee in her hand while another woman looks on .
ALT: a woman is holding a cup of coffee in her hand while another woman looks on .
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
This exhibition is an extraordinary cavalcade of work from that time that gives a broad view of Black makers and their formal and social concerns. The exhibition design is extraordinary.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
We ran to National Gallery of Art to see “Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955-1985” before the museum closes due to the government shutdown. If you have time today or tomorrow, go!

www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...
Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985 | National Gallery of Art
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
www.nga.gov
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
The were joined by a second work.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
The Trump-Epstein friendship statue has returned to the National Mall, on 3rd St. by the National Gallery of Art East Building.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
Yeah. Hard pass.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
Because the mainstream media’s bar is always higher for non-Republicans.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 7d
Universities considering capitulating to the Trump “conditions” should use this real world example to understand they will simply be destroying their own institution. bsky.app/profile/nich...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 7d
Chris Rufo's disastrous takeover of New College in Florida shows what universities would become if they sign the Trump regime's extortionary "compact."

New College was supposed to model the anti-woke conservative higher-ed Americans crave. Instead, it showed the opposite, and serves as a warning.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
These are the people @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social wants us to talk to. Let that sink in.
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 7d
Someone is going to have to explain to me how this administration isn’t totally weird. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Trump, 79, Posts Bizarre Grim Reaper-Themed AI Music Video
If the music video is to be believed, Russell Vought is the Grim Reaper.
www.thedailybeast.com
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Aruna D’Souza 🇨🇦 @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 7d
My latest for the NYT: the Iraqi-American painter Hayv Kahraman had to flee Baghdad as a child because of American bombs, and had to flee her home in Altadena because of wildfires. The two events come together in her new paintings. I interviewed her about it. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/a...
Forced to Flee Two Homes, a Painter Finds a Refuge on Canvas
www.nytimes.com
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 7d
PASS IT ON.
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Todd Wolfson @proftwolf.bsky.social · 8d
As president of @aaup.org I stand with Governor Newsom. Every single democratic governor should follow suit
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 8d
IF ANY CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY SIGNS THIS RADICAL AGREEMENT, THEY'LL LOSE BILLIONS IN STATE FUNDING — INCLUDING CAL GRANTS — INSTANTLY.

CALIFORNIA WILL NOT BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.
New York Times: "Trump Administration Asks Colleges to Sign ‘Compact’ to Get Funding Preference." The White House asked nine top universities to pledge support for President Trump’s agenda to help ensure access to research funding.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 8d
Thank you @aaup.org

www.aaup.org/news/univers...
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.
www.aaup.org
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8d
In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9d
what does an "unconstitutional DEI principle" mean in the context of a tunnel project? what, a black person is going to use it?
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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 9d
OMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
Voight's tweet
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Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social · 10d
In the wake of the Kirk assassination and the volley between Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, we should all learn from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” www.csuchico.edu/iege/_assets...
www.csuchico.edu
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